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Anna Quindlen Quote: “I can’t think of a single downside to motherhood now.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Like cellulite creams or hair-loss tonics, capital punishment is one of those panaceas that isn’t. Only it costs a whole lot more.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “I was good with being alone, always liked it, but there’s something about doing a job alone that you’ve always done with someone else that just doesn’t feel right. Maybe it’s like making Christmas cookies by yourself. There’s nothing wrong with it in theory, but you’re really supposed to be doing it with other people, and not just any other people.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Each time I look at my diploma, I remember that I am still a student, still learning every day how to be human.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you’d never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “I sort of feel like it comes around again. That when you get to a certain age, when you’ve lived enough and you’ve got your friends to support you and your family to support you, you wake up one morning and think, yeah, I’m okay.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Downtime is where we become ourselves, looking into the middle distance, kicking at the curb, lying on the grass or sitting on the stoop and staring at the tedious blue of the summer sky. I don’t believe you can write poetry, or compose music, or become an actor without downtime, and plenty of it, a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “The next day, eating a turkey sandwich with salt and mayonnaise, Rebecca decided Thanksgiving was the best holiday, although she had little to choose from: her family never celebrated Hanukkah but her father was militant about ignoring Christmas and insisted they spend December 25 eating Chinese takeout and going to the movies.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “There’s some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn’t let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or maybe it never really lets go at all.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I’ve discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “All of the qualities that you need to be a good opinion columnist tend to be qualities that aren’t valued in women.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “No one, not even my father, not even my children, has ever loved me the way that man loved me, that’s for sure. There’s something satisfying in being loved that hard, maybe more than loving that hard yourself.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Nearly everyone I meet expresses deep sympathy about the fact that I have never married. Sometimes I wonder why.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Raising a child is a little like Picasso’s work; in the beginning he did very conventional representational things. Cubism came after he had the rules down pat.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it was when the baby boomers, who let’s face it, take up a lot of space on the planet, were young.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “So you’re getting squeezed at both sides. You’re taking care of your mom and dad and you’re still doing caregiving with your kids, which is not easy. But I think overall, there’s a level of satisfaction that might be unparalleled.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “I never think about issues when I’m working on a novel. Issues are things that happen to people in sufficient numbers to elicit widespread attention; in other words, they’re just life happening. That’s what I think about: life, and telling a story.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “These are my words; this is their world, a world in which we can wear our gender on our sleeves, unabashedly, as we go about the business of thinking out loud.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “The Statue of Liberty is meant to be shorthand for a country so unlike its parts that a trip from California to Indiana should require a passport.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Life is haphazard. We plan, and then we deal when the plans go awry. Control is an illusion; best intentions are the best we can do.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “I go online all the time, I just don’t read about myself. I read a fashion website called Go Fug Yourself. I actually correspond with the Fug Girls and that’s great.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “A fix-it man, they used to call it, when things still got fixed instead of just junked. If.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “I don’t do research for my novels. Obviously, in my other line of work as a reporter and a columnist, I’ve had the opportunity to get to know both social workers and TV talk-show hosts.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “There’s something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “So much of what you take for granted is the bedrock of happiness.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. – JAMES BALDWIN.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Dogs makes messes, it’s true, but they clean them up as well.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “I’m sure not afraid of success and I’ve learned not to be afraid of failure. The only thing I’m afraid of now is of being someone I don’t like much.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “If there is anyone who’s living the work of the New Testament, it’s the nuns of the Catholic church and not the Catholic hierarchy.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn’t read, I don’t know what I’d do. But as a writer, it’s both a blessing and a curse. You absorb technique as you go along.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “We’ve made hyper motherhood a measure of female success.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “I feel about exercise the same way that I feel about a few other things: that there is nothing wrong with it if it is done in private by consenting adults.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Testosterone does not have to be toxic.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “But no one ever leaves the town where they grew up, not really, even if they go.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “I looked around and it was like I was seeing everything frozen into a still photograph, like I was seeing my whole life but in one of those shots you look and later think, Yeah, that’s what it was like, once upon a time. Once upon a time ago.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “This is why I had children: to offer them a perfect dream of childhood that can fill their souls as they grow older.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “I remember adolescence, the years of having the impulse control of a mousetrap, of being as private as a safe-deposit box.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Not writing at all leads to nothing.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Because I’m learning that being a grandmother is not about the things you have to do. It’s about the things you want to do. The fact is that motherhood is mainly about requirements.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “I know the difference now between dedication and infatuation. That doesn’t mean I don’t still get an enormous kick out of infatuation;: the exciting ephemera, the punch in the stomach, the adrenaline to the heart.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “Occasionally someone will tell me that they won’t have pets because they’re messy, and I suppose there’s some truth to that, between the fur and the slobber and the occasional puddle on the floor. I have to choke down the temptation to respond that life is messy, and its vagaries go down hardest with those who fool themselves into thinking they can keep it neat.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “If we really feel like we’re comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out that kind of third or fourth act of our life.”
Anna Quindlen Quote: “You want to have fun with your kids, and no one has fun with someone who runs roughshod.”
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